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Claustrophobia happened. I almost can’t believe it—it nearly didn’t. After my first concept—and my first 8 hours of work—fell to pieces, I considering throwing in the towel. But I had such a blast in my last LD that I was determined to see it through. Boy am I glad I did.

The result was Claustrophobia, a game that—yes indeed—fits on a single screen.

It’s kind of touching. You’ve got your family and you’re all bunkered down in this little room in the middle of a sort of labyrinth—a dungeon. Your task: keep them all alive as long as you can, using the tools available to you. You can build walls, mount doors, place crossbow-turrets and mines, all to kill, deter, or steer away the monsters that keep coming in to steal your children.

And steal them they will.

Oh and there’s lighting. A custom 2D-lighting engine I built some years ago came in handy for this. The screenshot captures some of the effect, but—go on—why are you reading this—play it!

Due to several reasons (sh*tty Internet connection, being lazy, being busy, being stressful, not dealing with LD, etc.), I could test only 50 games yet. I can’t imagine, how some people have patience for testing 1000 games…!

As I mentioned, I’m lazy, so don’t expect full reviews for every entries. 😀 instead, I choose the aspect I think the most important (fun, graphics, mood), and I make a descending toplist about the games for each.